Spring Break to NWI

We headed north during our spring break, during the second weekend.

We traveled through snow and dodged flooding, but we made it!

We were thankful everyone was healthy, and it's always a fun time with family! 

On Thursday, we stopped in Story City for breakfast since we left our house

at 6:30 to try to beat the snowy weather.

This was the first time the girls had McDonald's for breakfast

and they LOVED IT! 

We then stopped by Sioux Center's Pizza Ranch

to say HI to Grandma while she was working and eat a great lunch!

(and watch ISU playing basketball while we ate)

the girls helped make their multi-colored cupcakes

Avery chose purple 

Aubrey chose teal 

playing Candyland with Weston

Jaelyn won a birthday party at the Sioux Center libary,

so on Friday morning, some cousins met up for that party! 

There was popcorn, lemonade, a movie, coloring pages and

toys to play with for about an hour and a half!

a fun activity to do together 

to Culver's for lunch - Avery and Jaelyn 

Aubrey and Camryn 

Avery was excited that her rainbow shirt matched the rainbow cupcakes -

unplanned but perfect! 

turning into good little buds :)

They wanted me to notice their BOWS on their boots. 

cousin fun with Jaelyn and Dakota 

Camryn decided to get her ears pierced, too on Friday afternoon

so she could match Aubrey :)

We had the VG family birthday party on Friday night at Ash's 

present time

This was from Jaelyn and may be the BEST present of all!

She LOVES combing her hair with her new brush! 

Avery got a new real bed earlier and now her DOLL has a new loft bed, too! 

YAY - water bottle holder for her bike! 

a REAL charm bracelet - one says "grand-daughter" and the other is her birthstone 

What a haul, Aubrey! 

Wow, Avery, you did well! 

ISU was playing to make it to the Big 12 championship

and Steve enjoyed throwing the kids in the air when ISU did well! 

The 3 March birthday girls! 

The joke has been that Curt is the "favorite child" - so I thought it was fitting

to get him an actual trophy! The idea is to pass the trophy along to each sibling

as we think they do something to earn "the favorite child" title :)

Saturday morning craft at Grandma's 

On Saturday night, all 10 of us had a night out WITHOUT KIDS

as part of Mom and Dad's Christmas gift.

We went to Buffalo Wild Wings for supper and watched ISU

play their first half of the game in the Big 12 championship.

We then did an escape room together.

Unfortunately we did NOT break out in time, due to:

1- we "picked the lock" and were penalized

2- the second door room was broken and wouldn't open

3- game master was not cool

4- somone wouldn't let us get a clue earlier

Sunday morning and Aubrey and Grandma matched - they

didn't even plan it! 

YELLOW for springtime! 

After church, we went out to check out Curt's new lambs! 

Since the lambs were born on BOTH of the girls' birthday - we

said they DEFINITELY had to hold them and name them.

I think this is Avery's girl named "Ava"

She thought holding "Ava" was pretty neat! 

Curt and Emily and the girls --

Aubrey a little unsure but Avery is BEYOND thrilled! 

Even Mom didn't mind holding the little lambs :)

Born on Aubrey's bithday - named "Bua" 

And the other twin on Aubrey's birrhday "Aub"

One last birthday thrill - the PINATA

We made Emily hold it and each kid had a few turns to hit it 

swing and a miss - Aubrey was not happy about that :)